His Excellency

This 1928 film features stylized cinematography and actors from the Moscow Art Theater in a fiction story based on the life of Jewish Labor Bund member Hirsch Lekert who attempted to assassinate the Vilna governor in 1902 to avenge the flogging of workers who participated in a May Day rally.

• Grigoriy RoshalDirector
• Vera StroyevaScreenplay
• Serafima RoshalScreenplay

• Leonid LeonidovGovernor von Wahl / Old Rabbi
• Mariya SinelnikovaMiriam
• Yuliy UntershlakHirsch Lekkert
• Tamara AdelheimRivile, Hirsch's wife
• Abram GrinfeldLemzer, state rabbi
• Mikhail RostovtsevShort Clown
• Nikolai CherkasovTall Clown
• Aleksandr NenyukovPyotr
• Mariya Dobrova'Star' of the Circus
• Aleksandr SandelShpis, industrialist
• Igor DoroninCast
• Mariya ShlenskayaOld revolutionary (uncredited)